PLAYLIST FOR THE LAUNDROMAT – 15th September

Take Your Pick – Greg Olsen – Take Your Pick
Borstal Boys - The Faces - They’re Good Boys (When They’re Asleep)
After The Thrill Is Gone - The Eagles - On The Border

The Odd Sock –
Samson - Mike Warnke

Remember Sam - The Easybeats - The Definitive Collection
What’s A Girl Supposed To Do? - Lesley Gore - Start The Party Again
Over & Over - Fleetwood Mac - Outside Work

Stuff You Left In Your Pockets –
Downhearted Blues – Bessie Smith
Easy Rider – Leadbelly
Victory Ball - Charlie Parker
Double Talk – Lionel Hampton & his orchestra
I Don’t Know - Buddy Guy & Junior Wells
CC Rider - Brownie McGhee & Sonny Terry

You Can Have Her - The Fortunes - Here It Comes Again
The Weaver’s Answer - Family - Old Songs, New Songs
3 Into 2 - Flash & The Pan - Burning Up The Night

3-Piece Suit –
Only In Your Heart
Woman Tonight
Story Of A Teenager
Half A Man
Company
Hollywood
Sister Goldenhair
Sandman
Horse With No Name - America - Music Hall, Boston 1975 (part 2)

Soap Opera - Harvey Andrews - Writer Of Songs
Crest Of A Wave - Rory Gallagher - Deuce
The Ballad Of Tricky Fred - Arlo Guthrie - Arlo

Quote – “Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it” - John Lennon


ON THIS DAY – 15th September

Intros & Outtros (Births & Deaths)

1926
· Julian “Cannonball” Adderley, jazz alto-sax player

1940
· Jimmy Gilmer, singer

1941
· Les Braid, bassist for The Swinging Blue Jeans

1942
· Lee Dorman, bassist and guitarist from Iron Butterfly and Captain Beyond

1956
· Jaki Graham, soul singer

1960
· Michel Dorge, drummer with Crash Test Dummies

1967
· Jerry Dixon, bassist for Warrant

1976
· Ivette Sosa vocalist for Eden’s Crush
· KG, singer with MN8

2004
· The Ramones’s guitarist, Johnny Ramone (a.k.a. John Cummings), died of prostate cancer on this day


EVENTS IN THE WORLD OF ROCK –

1956
· Elvis Presley was at no. 1 in the US for 5 weeks with Don’t Be Cruel

1962
· The Four Seasons had no. 1 in the US for 5 weeks with Sherry
· Brian Epstein brought The Beatles to the offices of the London Daily Mirror for an interview with Peter Jones, who concluded they were ”a nothing group”

1964
· At Cleveland’s Public Auditorium, The Beatles were ordered off stage for 15 minutes by authorities so that the screaming crowd could be calmed down

1966
· The Small Faces had a UK no. 1 with All Or Nothing

1969
· Ed Sullivan released a rock & roll record, The Sulli-Gulli by the Ed Sullivan Singers & Orchestra
· Deep Purple, with new vocalist, Ian Gillan, and bassist, Roger Glover performed Concerto for Rock Band and Orchestra with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra at London;’s Royal Albert Hall

1970
· Black Sabbath and The Dog That Bit People played The Marquee in London
· Vice-President Spiro Agnew says that the youth of America ”are being brain-washed into a drug culture” by rock music, movies, books and underground newspapers

1974
· Gary Thain, bassist for Uriah Heep received an almost fatal electric-shock at a concert in Dallas, Texas. He retired

1975
· Pink Floyd released Wish You Were Here

1976
· Steely Dan’s 5th album, The Royal Scam, went gold

1977
· President Carter met with 15 top record industry executives, the first time the music business had been recognised by a president
· The Rolling Stones released Love You Live

1978
· Bob Dylan’s longest concert tour began, a series of 62 one-night-stands across USA and Canada

1979
· Led Zepellin scored their 6th US No. 1 LP with In Through The Out Door which stayed on top for 7 weeks
· Bob Dylan released Slow Train Coming
· Abba played their first North American concert, in Vancouver, British Columbia

1980
· David Bowie opened on Broadway in the title role of the play The Elephant Man
· Paul McCartney released Temporary Secretary

1990
· George Michael scored his 2nd UK no. 1 with Listen Without Prejudice vol 1
· New Kids On The Block’s business manager had his briefcase containing $100,000 stolen from a hotel in Hollywood
· Steve Miller Band had a UK no. 1 with The Joker, 16 years after its first release
· Bruce Hornsby began filling in on keyboards for The Grateful Dead after the death of Brent Mydland

1996
· Pearl Jam went to no. 1 in the US with No Code

1997
· A 34-year-old man was awarded more than £20,000 by a French court for losing his hearing after standing too close to the speakers at a U2 concert in 1993

2002
· Dixie Chicks were no. 1 for 2 weeks on the US charts with Home

2003
· Abba tribute acts overtook Elvis impersonators in the battle of British covers of singers, according to a survey by The Performing Right Society